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Craptastic performance
Veingloria
Member Posts: 50
I play on a near-to-minimum requirement system at the moment. P4 2.6, NVIDIA w/128, IDE hard drive instead of SETA, 1 gig of RAM. I have bought and tried to play the game, but even on maximum performance - where everything looks pretty darn awful - it just isn't playable. SO... it would be an easy enough thing to drop into the local nerd chop-shop on my way home and pick up an NVIDIA w/512 on board. But will that make the difference? I hate to go blow a hundred and some bucks only to discover that unless I'm committed to a new chipset and hard drive, I can consider my Vanguard career over before it started. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to whether or not I'd be likely to succeed with just this one upgrade?
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What is the "NVIDIA w/128"?
Dikamek
If you would like constructive advice on vanguard I would suggest going to one of the following dot com websites: vanguardspheres or silkyvenom
I could try to offer assistance but I am not completely qualified, and most people here will just flame your post with OMG VaN sUKzz02z!! and crap but there are some good hardware experts and a much better Van community at those other places so I would give them a go=)
VG is resource hog and thats its biggest problem at the moment.
1 Gigabyte of RAM is very vague also.... What speed is this RAM? PC3200? PC400?
We can only guess and make judgements, but the end result isn't going to mean anything if we don't know exactly what you're dealing with.
I would say Upgrade your RAM before you make a large investment into a GFX card. Then again, pending your series number, you may want to upgrade your GFX card.
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Okay, you're right, that was vague. Here are the less vague stats and an "I dunno...":
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 128 megs of Ram
Also, humiliating though this is, I don't know what the speed of my RAM is, and (this is so sad) I'm not sure how to find out? Sorry, it's one of those "but HE was the one who managed our systems, before he left, that rat" kind of scenarios. What I don't know about my computer is pretty scary.
Dikamek
Refer to the thread "Video tweaks that worked" which is stickied at the top of the Vanguard section here. Within are some tweaks to the client file as well as other tweaks which will improve your performance drastically! It really will help a ton and you will likely be able to play on balanced.
It just wastes memory that would normally be used by the game if left alone.
(edited for clarity)
Are you going to quit?
Just asking because Vanguard costs 125$ here in Brazil and i'm really interested into playing it.
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I'm definately not quitting. I know they are working on improving performance, and I have every faith that they will make this game playable on my current rig - or one with a slightly better vid card - soon enough. There is too much I love about the game concepts for me to give up just because, at the moment, all of my characters seem to have cerebral palsey.
Gamespy ran SLI geforce 6800's and couldn't even get past 5 FPS with their normal resolution.
That's pathetic. Vanguard truly does have craptastic performance.
well sli sint even intergrated yet, second of all my friend with a damn 6200 gets 30ies so eithe ru facts are wrong, or their pc sucks mnore than paris hilton.
My facts are wrong?
Sorry, but here's a direct link.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/vanguard-saga-of-heroes/759481p1.html
I don't believe you either.
A 6200 getting 30 fps? That's impossible with Vanguard.
well sli sint even intergrated yet, second of all my friend with a damn 6200 gets 30ies so eithe ru facts are wrong, or their pc sucks mnore than paris hilton.
yeah, your friend is lying. There is no way a PC with an Nvidia 6200 is going to run the game with 30FPS, unless you're on minimum settings with everything turned off. In my opinion you should at least have a 7800 or better to run it with decent quality.
Dude, why are you spamming the Vanguard forums w/BS spam about poor graphics and low fps? You contradict yourself in every post, "game runs fine for me, but horrible performance." You even posted that the game runs fine for you at 35fps so how is it that you get more fps than Gamespy? What's your seceret?!? Just do us all a favor and unplugg your computer, take it to Goodwill and got back to playing Candyland.
One player reported getting high FPS (40-50) on SLI 7800.
There's no way they got 40-50 FPS on one 7800.
Do you guys even read the tech support forums? I played through the beta and after release and I read tons of posts on people's system specs and their resulted low FPS.
Unless Vanguard is filled with bugs that prevent some people from getting higher FPS, then a lot of people are lying or exagerating.
Though your specs are low for this game, I would tell everyone not to be so up in arms about what your system is like. A lot of the performance issues are server/Sigil side. For instance my rig:
Core 2 Duo e6600 @ 2.4ghz / 2gig PC 6400 (800mhz) DDR2 ram / nForce 680i mobo / 3.0g/s SATA hdd / BFG nVidia GeForce 7950gt 512 DDR3
Doesn't get magnificent performance for what it has on it. I average just under 30fps overall... Now, I haven't tweaked or overclocked anything yet, but I should still run this game VERY well. But I still get a ton of stutter even on balanced. I really wonder about people who say they get constant 70fps.
Anyway, all that to say a lot of the issues are server side. Even Sigil/SOE said they are trying to improve performance.
"Dude, why are you spamming the Vanguard forums w/BS spam about poor graphics and low fps? You contradict yourself in every post, "game runs fine for me, but horrible performance." You even posted that the game runs fine for you at 35fps so how is it that you get more fps than Gamespy? What's your seceret?!? "
I hardly contradict myself. There's a big difference between poor performance and someone owning a high-end system. Could it have also occured to you that I have multiple computers? One that is high-end that can play Vanguard with 35 FPS (but it's high-end, so it SHOULD do 60 FPS) and another computer that is med-end that can barely even play Vanguard?
Just because I can play the game at 35 FPS doesn't mean I contradict myself in saying it has poor performance. Any game that can't be run at 60 FPS on a system that cost thousands of dollars is poor performance. Also the fact that I can run Oblivion, BF2142, LOTR, all SMOOTHLY (I get 60-100 FPS in BF2142 on max settings, and very high on Oblivion with max settings as well)
It's hardly a contradiction.
Rhadovan, good post. I also agree about being skeptical of those who get 70 FPS. They must be lying.
The only times I can get that high is if I turn off volumetric clouds and look at the sky for a minute without moving.